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Ageing Suitability Evaluation of Residential Districts Based on Active Ageing Theory
Buildings, 2023 Residential districts, the primary locations for older adults, struggle to satisfy the needs of the rising older population due to ageing infrastructure, etc.
Yuxin Xu, Hui Liu, Shu Su, Peng Mao
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The Impact of Societal Ageing on Individual Consumers’ Insurance Purchase Intentions: A Review and Research Agenda [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesThis study examines how societal ageing influences insurance purchasing intentions, addressing the prevailing emphasis on elderly consumers and the limited conceptual integration of ageing within existing behavioural models.
Mohd Hafizuddin-Syah Bangaan Abdullah +3 more
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Publication Trends, Thematic Clusters and Governance in Ageing–Insurance Research: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review [PDF]
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and FinancingPopulation ageing is intensifying demands on insurance systems to deliver financial protection, equity and sustainability. Yet research at the ageing–insurance interface remains fragmented across behavioural, institutional and policy levels, with ...
B. A. M Hafizuddin-Syah PhD +2 more
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Illyaa Ilyich Mechnikov: life and work [PDF]
Annals of Mechnikov's Institute, 2020 On May 15, 2020, we celebrated the 175th anniversary of the Ilya Metchnikoff, the author of the hypothesis about parenchymella, the father of cellular immunology and inflammation theory, founder of gerontology, aging and longevity science.
Minukhin V. V. +5 more
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Review of ultraviolet ageing mechanisms and anti-ageing methods for asphalt binders
Journal of Road Engineering, 2022 Summary: Asphalt binder is inevitably aged by ultraviolet (UV) light during its service period. UV ageing can significantly decrease the technical properties of asphalt binder. The sensitivity of asphalt to UV ageing and thermal-oxidative ageing differs,
Yuanyuan Li +12 more
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IUBMB Life, 2007 AbstractAgeing is a universal, intrinsic, progressive and deleterious process. Understanding it is of major interest to scientist, physicians as well as to the general population. Critical to this understanding is to formulate comprehensive theories of aging with high predictive and explanatory power. More than 300 theories have been postulated and are
Jose, Viña +2 more
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Mitochondrial determinants of mammalian longevity [PDF]
Open Biology, 2017 Current ageing theories are far from satisfactory because of the many determinants involved in ageing. The well-known rate-of-living theory assumes that the product (lifetime energy expenditure, LEE) of maximum lifespan (MLS) and mass-specific basal ...
Yasuhiro Kitazoe +4 more
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The Information Theory of Aging
Nature Aging, 2023 Information storage and retrieval is essential for all life. In biology, information is primarily stored in two distinct ways: the genome, comprising nucleic acids, acts as a foundational blueprint and the epigenome, consisting of chemical modifications to DNA and histone proteins, regulates gene expression patterns and endows cells with specific ...
Yuancheng Ryan Lu +2 more
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The Danaid Theory of Aging [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 The classical evolutionary theories of aging suggest that aging evolves due to insufficient selective pressure against it. In these theories, declining selection pressure with age leads to aging through genes or resource allocations, implying that aging could potentially be stalled were genes, resource allocation, or selection pressure somewhat ...
Wensink, Maarten J., Cohen, Alan A.
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Theoretical and conceptual framework for population ageing research [PDF]
Stanovništvo, 2019 The ageing of the population is a contemporary phenomenon, but its foundations were laid decades ago. Changing age structures and the consequent demographic ageing has only recently become the subject of theoretical (re)consideration, since the ...
Stojilković-Gnjatović Jelena
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